Chris Lattner wrote:
Sorry, but you're incorrect. While it may be "logical" that shifting a value left more bits than its size will give you zero, this is not what C specifies.
I am puzzled, what exactly *does* C specify in this case? I reread the thread, but it's not clear what the requirement of the standard here is (as opposed to what programmers might or might not expect, or what hardware does or does not do).
